If I got enough people on my side does that mean I can define whats true?

Question

I have read somethings that said that truth is relative. Meaning truth is only what one wants it to be. If this is true does that mean if I get enough people with me I have enough might to declare whatever I want to be right until someone stronger than me pushes me aside and asserts there morality?

Answer 1

No, truth cannot be subjective. Truth either is or isn't. Just because the whole world believed the earth was flat for years and years didn't make it true. Now in their own perspective at the time the earth being flat was true but the absolute, concrete truth was the world was round.

When applying this to morality there are only 2 possibilities.

1. There is a supernatural intelligence who has defined morality and no matter how many people are on your side, if your up against the one who created morality then your moral truths are in fact false.

2. There is no supernatural intelligence. Science is as true as reality gets and in that case morality is subject to change from perspective to perspective, from person to person, from culture to culture and of course from government to government. In this case there is no such thing as true morality and therefore no one should be able to tell me that I can't steal from my next door neighbor If I believe that it is okay. What if the majority of a culture believes this? Whose to say they're way of living is "wrong"?

Answer 2

No because right and wrong is black and white. Wrong is wrong and right is right, no matter what the majority of persons might say otherwise.

Answer 3

Truth is to say of that which is that it is and of that which is not that it is not. Anything else is not truth.

Answer 4

Persuasion and brainwashing do not equal evidence or proof.